At present is Wednesday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2024. There are 182 days left within the 12 months.
At present in historical past:
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into regulation a sweeping civil rights invoice handed by Congress prohibiting discrimination and segregation based mostly on race, coloration, intercourse, faith or nationwide origin.
Additionally on this date:
In 1776, the Continental Congress handed a decision saying that “these United Colonies are, and of proper should be, free and unbiased States.”
In 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau (gee-TOH’) on the Washington railroad station; Garfield died the next September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)
In 1917, rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked Black residents; at the very least 50 and as many as 200 folks, most of them Black, are believed to have died within the violence.
In 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean whereas making an attempt to make the primary round-the-world flight alongside the equator.
In 1962, the primary Walmart retailer opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court docket, in Gregg v. Georgia, dominated 7-2 that the demise penalty was not inherently merciless or uncommon.
In 1979, the Susan B. Anthony greenback coin was launched to the general public.
In 1986, ruling in a pair of circumstances, the Supreme Court docket upheld affirmative motion as a treatment for previous job discrimination.
In 1990, greater than 1,400 Muslim pilgrims have been killed in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel close to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
In 2002, Steve Fossett grew to become the primary particular person to finish a solo circumnavigation of the world nonstop in a balloon.
In 2018, rescue divers in Thailand discovered alive 12 boys and their soccer coach, who had been trapped by flooding as they explored a cave greater than every week earlier.
In 2020, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on fees that she had helped lure at the very least three women – one as younger as 14 – to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. (Maxwell could be convicted on 5 of six counts.)
In 2022, the police chief for the Uvalde, Texas, college district stepped down from his Metropolis Council seat amid criticism of his response to the mass taking pictures at an Uvalde elementary college wherein 19 college students and two academics have been slain on Could 24 of that 12 months.
At present’s Birthdays:
- Former Philippine first woman Imelda Marcos is 96.
- Actor Polly Holliday is 88.
- Racing Corridor of Famer Richard Petty is 88.
- Former White Home chief of workers and former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu is 86.
- Author-director-comedian Larry David is 78.
- Rock musician Roy Bittan (Bruce Springsteen & the E Avenue Band) is 76.
- Actor Wendy Schaal is 71.
- Actor-model Jerry Corridor is 69.
- Former baseball participant Jose Canseco is 61.
- Race automobile driver Sam Hornish Jr. is 46.
- Former NHL middle Joe Thornton is 46.
- Singer Michelle Department is 42.
- Actor Vanessa Lee Chester is 41.
- Retired determine skater Johnny Weir is 41.
- Actor-singer Ashley Tisdale is 40.
- Actor Lindsay Lohan (LOH’-uhn) is 39.
- Former skilled soccer participant Alex Morgan is 36.
- Actor Margot Robbie is 35.
- Singer-rapper Saweetie is 32.
- U.S. Olympic swimming gold medalist Ryan Murphy is 30.
